friends and associates

Presents a humorous imagining of Jesus Christ's life, told by his longtime friend, Biff, taking a fresh look at his relationship with Mary Magdelene, the roles of the disciples, his crucifixion, and the Resurrection.

178 people who have known Clinton, including friends, legislators, critics, campaign workers, and reporters, share their observations and anecdotes about the 42nd president.

Describes the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln and sought-after dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly, a freed slave, and examines the role Elizabeth played in Mary's turbulent life before and after the president's assassination.

As a teenager in the early 1980s, Eric Nuzum was convinced that he was haunted by the ghost of a little girl, his classmate Laura who helped him through it, and eventually became a ghost herself. Now an adult, he confronts his fear of ghosts by visiting America's most haunted places.

Hermann Goring was Adolph Hitler's right-hand man. As he rose to power though, he became increasingly disillusioned, withdrawing from the political scene to enjoy the pleasures of his life as a wealthy man. He was eventually shunned by Hitler and by the time he was convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, he was alone and without allies. Before he could be hanged, he committed suicide in prison.

For four years, from November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During these four years he went from being a reluctant guardian to a fiercely loyal watchdog, and, in many ways, her closest friend.

January 1953 marked the year that Ted Sorensen and the freshman senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, began their professional relationship and personal friendship. The young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book, Profiles in Courage. Sorensen followed him to the White House in 1960 and was there for some of the most crucial days in JFK's presidency. After Kennedy's assassination, Sorensen stayed with President Johnson for a few months before leaving to write a biography of JFK but he returned to Washington in 1968 to help run Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign.

The first complete oral history of Bill Clinton and his presidency, it includes more than one hundred and fifty chronologically and topically arranged interviews with key figures.

Otto Dietrich was a thirty-four year old journalist when he met Adolf Hitler in 1931. In 1933 he was invited to become Hitler's press chief. He accepted with the simple, uncritical conviction that Hitler was dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people. After the end of the war and five months after Hitler's death, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write all that he had seen and heard during his twelve years of close association with Hitler. In 1948 he gave his memoir to someone he trusted requesting that it be published after his death. He died in 1952 at the age of fifty-five.

Examines Adolf Hitler's closest inner circle members individually and as a group and focuses on Hitler's three most important Nazi men: Goring, Goebbels, and Himmler, with a secondary inspection of Bormann, Speer, and Ribbentrop.